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The Bakersfield Middle School girls basketball team kept their fans on the edge of their seats last week, pulling out overtime wins over Mansfield and Gainesville. Monday, Bakersfield hosted the Mansfield Lady Lions in a nailbiter that was tied 30-30 at the end of regulation thanks to  Sierra...
The Superior Livestock Bulldogs (5th and 6th graders, who are undefeated for the season) and the Ozark County Times Bulldogs (3rd and 4th grade) will play in Gainesville at 1 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 10, at Benton Breeding Stadium. This will be the teams' only home game of the season. The coaches,...
Camryn Johnson, daughter of Brian and Shelly McGinnis Johnson of West Plains, was crowned 2015 Zizzer homecoming queen Sept. 18 during halftime of the West Plains High School football game. Camryn is the granddaughter of Pam McGinnis of Gainesville and Randy McGinnis and wife Kelly of West Plains....
The Bakersfield Junior High boys and girls basketball teams won their first home games of the season last week against Lutie. The junior Lions' boys team defeated the junior Indians, 43-20. Doug Tefft led Bakersfield with 14 points, followed by Jordan Kuk with 10. Nine different players scored for...
The Gainesville High School baseball team started the fall campaign last week with a 5-4 win over Mansfield and then faced the Lions in the opening round of the Summit Conference Tournament, where Gainesville again pulled out a win, 8-7. Harley Taylor was the winning pitcher in the first game for...
The Dora Lady Falcons' softball team picked up three more wins this past week after starting the season 4-0 with a first place win in their own tournament. Dora defeated Hartville, Thayer and Bakersfield this past week. Against Hartville, the Lady Falcons scored two in the first and one in the...
The Bakersfield Lady Lions' softball squad got back on the winning track after dropping a couple of games last week. Bakersfield beat Liberty 15-4 on Monday night. Kody Smith had a bases-loaded triple that cleared the bases in the fourth inning to break the game open. Smith was also part of three...
The Gainesville Lady Bulldogs' softball team won four more, advancing to 6-1 on the year. Gainesville beat Fordland, Norwood, Bakersfield and Conway this past week, scoring 52 runs in the process and holding opponents to only 10 runs. Gainesville blanked Fordland 15-0. Katelyn Brantingham was the...
The state-ranked Dora Falcons picked up two more wins this past week, beating Gainesville on Thursday and Norwood on Friday. In the game with intra-county rival Gainesville, the Falcons answered a Bulldog one-run second inning with a two-run third inning. Both teams tacked on two more in the fifth...
The Lutie Indians' baseball team went 1-1 last week, getting blanked by Seymour on Thursday 10-0 and rebounding in a big way against Koshkonong on Friday with a 24-7 win over the Blue Jays. Individual statistics were not provided. The Indians are scheduled to play Thursday at Niangua and will then...

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